Bachelor of Arts in History
Degree Requirements = 120 credit hours
The History Major seeks to promote the study of the human experience within the flow of time at both the individual and societal levels. Such study will involve critical and intensive investigations of the historical legacies of the past; charting both human change and continuity over time flowing from those legacies; and studying the ways that the present human experience is a product of such historical developments. Such critical and intensive investigations will be rigorously pursued within the theological and philosophical framework of the historically orthodox, catholic Christian tradition.
As a result of study in this program students will demonstrate:
- Improved analytical skills related to historical investigation as reflected in written work
- Improved research skills in historical scholarship as reflected in written work
- Improved awareness of and ability to interact with primary historical sources as expressed through written work
- Improved depth of critical interaction between scholarly investigation and historic Christian faith as expressed in class discussions and written work
| Core | 54 hours |
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| History Requirements | 33 hours |
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| HS-1113 | History of World Civilizations I | 3 hours | |
| HS-1203 | History of World Civilizations II | 3 hours | |
| HS-2113 | American History I to 1877 | 3 hours | |
| HS-2213 | American History II since 1877 | 3 hours | |
| HS-4103 | Historiography | 3 hours | |
| Two of the following (US History): | 6 hours | ||
| HS-4203 | Topics in U.S. History | 3 hours | |
| HS-3213 | Revolutionary and Early National America | 3 hours | |
| HS-3613 | Civil War and Reconstruction | 3 hours | |
| HS/SS-3143 | US National Government | 3 hours | |
| HS-4013 | African-American History | 3 hours | |
| HS-4343 | American Religious History | 3 hours | |
| Two of the following (European/World History): | 6 hours | ||
| HS-3413 | The Reformation in Europe | 3 hours | |
| HS-3713 | Medieval and Renaissance Europe | 3 hours | |
| HS/BT 3140 | History of Christianity I | 3 hours | |
| HS/BT 3150 | History of Christianity II | 3 hours | |
| HS-4303 | Topics in Western/World History | 3 hours | |
| Two additional History electives | 6 hours | ||
| (chosen from either category above) | |||
| Minor | 15 hours |
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| General Electives | 18 hours |
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Total |
120 hours |
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